HY Concept 45

[tommyk]

EVERYONE I CONSULTED SAID THEY HAD THE UREA CYCLE ON THEIR TEST AND IT IS SO IMPORTANT IN OUR CLINICS AND LIVES. Know the cycle COLD until you can draw it out from memory.

For example, we know that an ammonium ion comes in in the mitochondria with carbamoyl phosphate, BUT urea has TWO nitrogens, which compound provides the second nitrogen? KNOW THIS. IT is essential for life.

[tommyk]

Answer is aspartate feeds it in!

NOBODY, but NONE of US will give up. We will ALL succeed and become doctors. Let's let none of us give up and be left behind with their dreams.